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Blog Post
January 11, 2024
More than 60 countries have data localization measures in place that restrict or prohibit the flow of certain types of data across their borders to other jurisdictions. A new CGD working paper by David Medine makes clear that these restrictions may have their greatest impact on smaller economies inc...
Apr
12
2023
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM BST / In-person and Online
March 22, 2023
"Driving Digital Transformation: Lessons from Seven Developing Countries" documents the experiences of implementing the Digital Economy Kit developed by the Pathways for Prosperity Commission and the Digital Pathways at Oxford program. The book was written in the name of Benno Ndulu, a former non-re...
WORKING PAPERS
February 09, 2022
This paper explores the historical record in the development and deployment of vaccines globally and puts the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in that context. Although far more can be done and should be done to speed equitable access to vaccines in the COVID-19 response, it is worth noting the revolutionar...
New from CGD
February 09, 2022
WASHINGTON—The COVID-19 vaccine rollout so far has been the fastest in global history and unprecedented in scale, according to a new study released today from the Center for Global Development, which also emphasized the considerable global inequality in access to vaccines to date.
Researchers at ...
Mar
18
2021
3:00—4:00 PM ET
March 11, 2021
How can we continue to improve access to information while addressing the “epistemic emergency” raised by the spread of disinformation? Katherine Maher, CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and CGD Policy Fellow Michael Pisa will explore this question and Wikimedia’s evolving role...
Blog Post
October 21, 2019
In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director of the Program on Technology and Employment at the Oxford Martin School, about his fears that the wage stagnation and rocketing inequality that resulted from the first industrial revolution could be repe...